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Wildlife control trappers capture alligator in Cutler Bay

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

It was a scaly surprise for folks in a South Miami-Dade neighborhood.An alligator roamed in Cutler Bay over the weekend.Wildlife control trappers wrangled the reptile as the beast put up a good fight.Eventually, they were able to subdue the gator and get it onto their truck.It happened near Southwest 99th Court and 213th Terrace.The alligator was later returned to the wild.

Miami Police recognize student who ‘Did the Right Thing’ when he saw another student with knife

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

Miami Police honored a third grade student with the right reward.The Do the Right Thing Awards took place Tthursday morning.Kailenn Hollinger was honored for reporting a classmate who had brought a steak knife to school.“It feels good because I risked my own life to save somebody else’s,” he said.“I wasn’t even aware of the situation until the school called me and told me what happened,” said mother Jovonna Hollinger, “but, I’m proud of him because it could’ve went a million different ways. No one ever wants to tell on their friend, and he wasn’t intending per say to get her in trouble, but it was just to make sure she didn’t harm herself or anyone else didn’t get harmed.”Hollinger was honored alongside nine other students who were chosen out of 700 nominees.

Animals in Rhode Island thought to be coyotes may actually be dogs, officials say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

Animals seen roaming around Warwick, Rhode Island that many people thought were coyotes are actually dogs or potentially a wolf hybrid, Mayor Frank Picozzi said on Thursday. The city’s police department said it received a number of calls about the dark colored dogs. In an update, Picozzi said the animals seen in Warwick’s Oakland Beach neighborhood “are in fact dogs-perhaps a wolf hybrid.”Picozzi said the owner has been located, adding that the animals will be tested and that police are investigating the situation. It is against Rhode Island state law to own a dog that is part wolf.

Attorneys for former cardinal facing sexual abuse charges appear in court

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

Attorneys for a former cardinal in the Catholic Church were in court Thursday in a case linked to sexual abuse charges against the cardinal. Theodore McCarrick is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager in Wellesley more than 45 years ago. Earlier this year, his attorneys filed a motion to withdraw the charges against him due to his failing mental competency. On Thursday, a judge granted prosecutors a request to receive copies of McCarrick’s medical records. A status hearing on the case has been scheduled for June 29. McCarrick is the highest ranking Roman Catholic official to face criminal charges of sexual abuse. He was defrocked in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he molested several adults and children.

BuzzFeed News to be shuttered in corporate cost cutting move

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN (AP Business Writer)Pulitzer Prize winning digital media outlet BuzzFeed News is being shut down as part of a cost-cutting drive by its corporate parent that’s shedding about 15% of its entire staff, adding to layoffs made earlier this year. In a memo sent to staff, Buzzfeed Inc. co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said Thursday that in addition to the news division, layoffs would take place in its business, content, tech and administrative teams. BuzzFeed is also considering making job cuts in international markets.BuzzFeed has about 1,200 total employees, according to a recent regulatory filing, meaning about 180 people will be losing their jobs in the latest cuts.Peretti said in his memo that he “made the decision to overinvest” in the news division, but failed to recognize early enough that the financial support needed to sustain operations was not there.Digital advertising has plummeted this year, cutting into the profitability of major tech c...

Ticker: Twitter begins removing blue checks; CSX railroad’s 1Q profit jumps 15% on higher rates

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

This time it’s for real.Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue checks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The checks — which used to mean the account was verified by Twitter to be who it says it is — began disappearing from these users’ profiles late morning Pacific Time.High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President Donald Trump.CSX railroad’s 1Q profit jumps 15% on higher ratesCSX hauled in 15% more profit in the first quarter as the railroad’s higher rates and fuel surcharges offset its high...

Coast Guard recovers ‘unresponsive’ boaters 7 miles off Cape Ann, locates overturned vessel

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

Missing boaters who departed from the New Hampshire coast on Wednesday morning have been recovered by U.S. Coast Guard boat crews about 7 miles off Cape Ann, according to officials who said the boaters were “unresponsive.”The Coast Guard also found their overturned vessel in the area about 7 miles northeast of Cape Ann.“USCG boat crews have recovered 3 unresponsive persons after searching in the vicinity of the overturned vessel,” the First Coast Guard District tweeted.“Search is ongoing for 1 missing person,” USCG Northeast added just before 6 p.m. on Thursday.The Coast Guard had put out an alert about the missing boaters at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday.“Missing boaters: Michael Sai and 3 additional people departed Hampton, NH, yesterday morning in the pictured 17-ft white center console,” USCG Northeast tweeted. “Their reported destination was fishing grounds near Jeffreys Ledge, approx. 50 miles offshore.”The Coast Guard asset...

Neighbor says 6-year-old and parents shot over stray ball

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl’s family — another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said at a news conference Wednesday that his department and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Regional Fugitive Task Force were conducting a broad search for 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary, who fled after the Tuesday night shootings near Gastonia, a city of roughly 80,000 people west of Charlotte. Singletary, who has been out on bond in a December attack in which authorities say he assaulted a woman with a hammer, is wanted in Tuesday’s shootings on four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of being a felon in ...

Police activity prompts freeway closure in Carlsbad

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

CARLSBAD, Calif. — All northbound lanes on a stretch of Interstate 5 in Carlsbad were closed Thursday afternoon due to police activity.According to Caltrans, all northbound lanes of I-5 at La Costa Canyon were closed at La Costa Avenue as of 1:45 p.m. Northbound lanes were reopened just before 2:20 p.m. and officers were working to clear the area.Motorists were initially detoured onto Poinsettia Lane to avoid the police activity.Southbound lanes of I-5 at Palomar Airport Road were closed initially, but have since been reopened. Rules of the Road: California license plate rules The police activity was due to a pursuit that was initiated by Carlsbad police, with the suspect stopping on I-5, according to the California Highway Patrol.You can check the latest road conditions with the FOX 5 Traffic Map.The circumstances that led to the pursuit were not immediately available from authorities.This is a developing story. Check back for updates as new information becomes available.

Racist texts by California police lead to federal lawsuit

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:50:47 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of Antioch, California and members of its scandalized police force have been hit with a federal lawsuit for civil rights violations stemming from a barrage of racist text messages that have shocked the community. John Burris, an Oakland-based civil rights attorney known for his work exposing police brutality, filed the complaint in federal court Wednesday on behalf of four individuals who say they were targeted by police officers who sent text messages using slurs to describe Black people and boasting about fabricating evidence and beating on suspects. A fifth plaintiff is suing on behalf of his father, who was shot and killed by two of the officers involved in the text scandal. “This fact pattern is the most pervasive racial hatred case I’ve ever been involved in,” said Burris at a news conference Thursday outside the Antioch Police Department, during which he listed the racial slurs and derogatory terms used by officers. “This conduct itself was...